#Fear Quotes

“To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe,And so your follies fight against yourself.Fear, and be slain--so worse can come to fight;And fight and die is death destroying death,Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.”

“You must not thinkThat we are made of stuff so fat and dullThat we can let our beard be shook with dangerAnd think it pastime.”

“Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won.”

“Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.”

“There is none but heWhose being I do fear; and under himMy genius is rebuked, as it is saidMark Antony's was by Caesar.”

“In the night, imagining some fear,How easy is a bush supposed a bear!”

“Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.”

“Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.”

“Against love's fire fear`s frost hath dissolution”

“Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.”

“The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.”

“To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.”

“But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.”

“The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.”

“To fear the worst oft cures the worst.”

“The fear's as bad as falling.”

“To saucy doubts and fears.”

“Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear.”

“Why, what should be the fear?I do not set my life at a pin's fee.”

“Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more.”

“Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.”

“Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.”

“As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.”

“What man dare, I dare.Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger;Take any shape but that, and my firm nervesShall never tremble.”

“Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.”

“One sees more devils than vast hell can hold”

“The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?”

“Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.”

“Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.”

“Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self.”

“Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.”

“Death is a fearful thing.”

“Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]”

“All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.”

“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”

“My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity.”

“What soilders whey-face? The English for so please you. Take thy face hence.”

“We make trifles of terrors,Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge,When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.”

“ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors.”

“But that the dread of something after death,The undiscover'd country from whose bournNo traveller returns, puzzles the willAnd makes us rather bear those ills we haveThan fly to others that we know not of?”

“Nothing routs us but the villainy of our fears.”

“All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive and the relationship deteriorates.”

“Making night hideous.”

“So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”

“Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.”

“When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.”

“See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath!He that but fears the thing he would not know,Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes,That what he feared is chanced.”

“Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us; worse, shuts the eyes of the mind and chills the heart.”

“Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.”